Cher’s daughter-turned-son Chastity Bono says getting sober gave him the confidence she needed to start her sex change. In a two-part interview with Entertainment Tonight, premiering Thursday, Chastity, who now goes by Chaz, talks with Mary Hart about the gender reassignment progress.
“It wasn’t a sudden decision. I’ve been doing therapy for a long time. It’s a long process going back almost a decade. I got clean and sober in 2004 and I couldn’t have done this before that,” he explains. “I always felt like a male from the time I was a child. There wasn’t much feminine about me. I believe that gender is something between your ears not between your legs. That is something I discovered in the early 90s. It was just a long process of being comfortable enough to do something about it. I was turning 40 and I thought it’s now or never.”
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Sonny and Cher’s little girl is a man…Beginning Thursday, Oct. 30, Entertainment Tonight’s Mary Hart will sit down with Chaz Bono in his first interview about his gender transition from female to male.
“I always felt male ever since I was a child.”
Chaz Bono (also known as Chastity Bono) will chronicle his decision to become a man behind the cover of a page-turning tell-all book, The Insider learned Tuesday.
After years of wearing men’s clothing, in June, Chaz — the 40-year-old daughter of ’60s icons Sonny and Cher — announced plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery, including a double mastectomy, to make his body and voice more masculine.
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“Chaz is embarking on a difficult journey, but one that I will support. I respect the courage it takes to go through this transition in the glare of public scrutiny, and although I may not understand, I will strive to be understanding,” Cher said at the time.
The memoir — tenatively titled Coming Clean — will arrive in bookstores in the Spring of 2011.
After announcing her shocking decision to transition from female to male just last month, Chastity/Chaz Bono has already received a number of lucrative offers to document her sex change with a new television reality series, The National Enquirer has learned.
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